The Congo: War in Katanga

"This operation bears no comparison to
anything else in United Nations history," said the U.N.'s senior
officer in Katanga. Conor Cruise O'Brien was vastly understating the
case. In recalcitrant Katanga last week, scattered bands of
blue-hel-meted troopsIndian, Swedish, Irishwere engaged in a battle
to the death with a weird and formidable foe: the troops of Katanga
President Moise Tshombe, some of them Baluba warriors smeared with
warpaint, led by Europeans and backed by jet fighters.

It was a war that the U.N.'s O'Brien, presumably with the full approval
of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold,...